A Daughter Of Eve

A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.


My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It's winter now I waken.


Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warmed sweet to-morrow: -
Stripped bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.